Crazy Quilt Spider Web

Our quilt group, Northeast Quilting Friends, has decided to start the year off with some embroidery.  Several of the ladies will be demonstrating stitches to use on a crazy quilt.  I'm first up and this is my demonstration.  Well, it's not that great, but, there are many, many great demonstrations of stitches on the web (no pun intended) at YouTube and just Google hand embroidery and you'll see lots of information.  

Anyway, I like to use Craft Weight fusible interfacing on the back of my crazy quilts.  I feel it gives all the buttons and babbles a way to "stand up" and show them off better.  Plus, the backing makes the fabric and colors brighter, like giving an undercoat in painting.  You will not need a hoop or anything to stretch the material so your stitches lay flat, the interfacing does that for you.  

This is the woven spider web stitch.  The only piercing of the fabric is done on the 5 skeletons for weaving over and under until your circle is complete.  Again, check better pictures at the website under Useful Information for Quilters-to the right on my blog.  

The crazy quilt spider web I like to make it a little more dramatic than most webs.  You use the back stitch to make the web and on the arcs, you can anchor the thread in place.  It's really about looking at your piece and deciding where the embellishment is needed.  Just like placing the buttons or beads in the right place.  

Hope this has given some inspiration for your next crazy quilt.  

Here's some of the quilts I've made.

Here's a few of the quilts I've made. One of these days, I need to get out all my quilts and have a picture taking day. I like to take my pictures from my top deck looking down on my bottom deck. As you can see from our second story window, it's a pretty slushy day here inthe blue grass. Mudders are great days to bet the horses, cause long shots win.

It's Christmas time so I get out my crazy quilt stockings. This is mine. Before I was a quilter, I liked to embroider. Didn't everyone start with stitching? Or did you jump right into sewing/quilting?

I've shared quilting with my grandmother, here is a quilt we made together. I've shared quilting with my mother, I don't have any pictures of hers, cause I gave them back to her after I quilted them.

These are slushy pictures of my backyard. Grey days in Kentucky, USA, are always good for quilting and sewing or embroidery.

Here's some of how I'm quilting the Diamond in the Rough. Click for a close up.